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much more ahead on "cnn sunday morning" which starts right now. >>> and good morning to you, i'm susan hendricks in this morning for randi kaye. last hour, pope benedict xvi gave his final angelus prayer in front of a massive crowd and also included a personal message. we heard him tell the crowd that he's not abandoning the church and that he's going to spend more time praying and meditating. ben wedemen is at st. peter's square at vatican city. ben, how are people reacting there? >> people are reacted very positively. we had well over 100,000 people in st. peter's square and the area around it, the city of rome had provided additional security, additional buses to bring the people here. there were pilgrims from all over the place. we heard the pope addressing the people in st. peter's square in italian and french and spanish and portuguese and spanish. a very large crowd. when he finished his address in all those language, a very loud applause to pope benedict. he only has five days left before he officially steps down as pope at 8:00 p.m. on the 28th of february. susan? >> ben, are
much more ahead on "cnn sunday morning" which starts right now. >>> and good morning to you, i'm susan hendricks in this morning for randi kaye. last hour, pope benedict xvi gave his final angelus prayer in front of a massive crowd and also included a personal message. we heard him tell the crowd that he's not abandoning the church and that he's going to spend more time praying and meditating. ben wedemen is at st. peter's square at vatican city. ben, how are people reacting...
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. >> tonight, a cnn special report. "murder in mexico: what happened at falcon lake." >> reporter: it's late afternoon in mccallon, texas. air operations are about to begin. >> there are areas mccallon, west of mccallon along the southwest border that are completely out of control in my opinion. >> reporter: captain stacy holland and his team from the texas department of public safety are trying to stop drug smugglers from crossing from mexico into the u.s. >> right there, right there. one guy's gotten out. >> reporter: they are also trying to stop the violence of a full-scale drug war from spilling north. >> are there parts of this border that you would be basically lawless or run by the cartels? >> absolutely. >> reporter: smack in the middle of this 21st century version of the wild west, two young americans, david hartley and tiffany young, just teenagers when they fell in love. >> we started dating in '98. the summer of '98, and dated for quite a while before we got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. >> what took
. >> tonight, a cnn special report. "murder in mexico: what happened at falcon lake." >> reporter: it's late afternoon in mccallon, texas. air operations are about to begin. >> there are areas mccallon, west of mccallon along the southwest border that are completely out of control in my opinion. >> reporter: captain stacy holland and his team from the texas department of public safety are trying to stop drug smugglers from crossing from mexico into the u.s....
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that's where this week's cnn hero comes in. meet michael carter. >> the state took me and my siblings away from my mom when i was 14. now, we live with our grandparents. i don't want to be faced with the limits that my mom faced and that's why i want to go to college. my grandparents only went to grade school. there is nobody at home that could help me figure out how i could reach my dream. >> applying to college can be very bewildering. there is over 400,000 low-income students every year who graduate qualified to go to a four-year college and they just don't go. my name is michael carter and i help qualified, underserved students apply to, pay for and stay in college. we bring college mentors to high schools to help students through the entire process. >> how many more apps do you have to do? >> none. i did them all. >> that's pretty good. >> it's completely free. students pick their mentor and they meet weekly until they're accept under to college. >> i have never really thought myself as the greatest student. like, college
that's where this week's cnn hero comes in. meet michael carter. >> the state took me and my siblings away from my mom when i was 14. now, we live with our grandparents. i don't want to be faced with the limits that my mom faced and that's why i want to go to college. my grandparents only went to grade school. there is nobody at home that could help me figure out how i could reach my dream. >> applying to college can be very bewildering. there is over 400,000 low-income students...
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and joining me to talk more about this are two cnn experts, and all things beltway and economics. jake tapper and ali velshi. thanks for joining us. you know, you hear francis colin talk. obviously, it's very concerning. ali, let me start with you. what happened to cause this? >> yeah, for once i'm going to use a colloquialism that actually fits. this is a poison pill. the sequester, forced budget cuts were something the government imposed upon itself to say if you don't take action to deal with the deficits and the debt, the consequence is going to be something so bitter that you're not going to want to swallow it. and guess what? this is the bitter. the idea that there are across the board cuts. now, there are many americans who justifiably, sanjay, think that we've got to get our spending under control. the problem with these forced budget cuts is that they are ham-fisted. they are -- they are using a sledgehammer where you need a stiletto. some of the things you described that are going to be cut are not the things that we should be cutting. there are probably other places we
and joining me to talk more about this are two cnn experts, and all things beltway and economics. jake tapper and ali velshi. thanks for joining us. you know, you hear francis colin talk. obviously, it's very concerning. ali, let me start with you. what happened to cause this? >> yeah, for once i'm going to use a colloquialism that actually fits. this is a poison pill. the sequester, forced budget cuts were something the government imposed upon itself to say if you don't take action to...
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i was never crazy about cnn having as many former operatives in those roles. and there's fewer of them now and i'm kind of glad to see that. i don't want those voices. look, they're never, you get to that level of government, howie, you know you're totally never out of government. you know, if you're not lobbying, you're connected. >> talking to all your old friends. fox news has been famously had a lot of potential presidential candidates last time and now herman cain who left the presidential race is the latest commentary. let me play a brief clip of cain talking to bill o'reilly. >> he is so popular because 51% of the voters were misled enough to vote for him. >> oh, come on. >> o'reilly says, come on. >> this is why i like o'reilly sometimes for saying, oh, come on. herman cain came on there. i saw that. he had like one phrase. like a candidate would have. it was, president obama is not a leader. he is a politician. i think he said it three times. and i thought, this is your analyst? >> i have 20 seconds. what about the fact that he left the race amid char
i was never crazy about cnn having as many former operatives in those roles. and there's fewer of them now and i'm kind of glad to see that. i don't want those voices. look, they're never, you get to that level of government, howie, you know you're totally never out of government. you know, if you're not lobbying, you're connected. >> talking to all your old friends. fox news has been famously had a lot of potential presidential candidates last time and now herman cain who left the...